Huntsville gazette., 1887-02-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PRINCESS AUGUSTA VICTORIA, wife of
| Prince William, eldest son of the Crown
| Prince of Germany, gave birth to a son on
| the Goth.
In furious fight between about fifty
Italians, at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Both,
| four of their number were seriously
| stabbed.
LORD ALGERyON PERCY's offer to resign
his seat in the British Parliament in favor
OF Goschen will probably be accepted by
| the latter.
| No TRACE has yet been found of Schro-
| der, the defaulting secretary and treasurer
| OF the Germania Savings Bank of Jersey
| City, N. j.
JUD CORNISH, who murdered Julia Green
| IN Washington County, KY, on the 25th
| was taken from jail at Springfield, KY, on
| the 3Oth, by mob, and lynched
| THE dispositions of Wittrock and Haight,
| the convicted express robbers were taken
at the Missouri penitentiary on the 29th,
Warden Marmaduke having refused to
| obey the writ of habeas corpus command
| ing him to produce the prisoners in st.
| Louis. No evidence was adduced in any
way inculpating Messenger Fothering-
| ham.
| The Metropolitan horse-car stables at
Brookline, Mass, were burned on the 31st
The German reserves summoned for
practice will, it is reported, be called from
the Western provinces.
THE House committee on public build
ings and grounds have ordered favora-
BILE report on the bill appropriating s75,-
coo for public building at Saltwater,
Mimi.
AN Alsace journal announces that fur
ther expectations, of planks and timber
| from Germany to France by way of Dieuze
| has been forbidden.
FIRE on the morning, of the 31st, start
| ing in the hardware store of Bearsley q
| Pratt at Otter Lake Mich, destroyed that
| and two adjoining buildings. Loss, S25,-
| COO; insurance, $4,000.
BELFAST was quiet on the 31st. The
rioters arrested were arraigned and re-
| manded for trial.
"BoBBY" ADAMS, the Minneapolis post
| Office robber, was sentenced at Chicago
| to five years in the penitentiary on the
| 3lst by Judge Blodgett, who also fined
| him 500 and one-sixth the cost of his trial.
| AN expedition to explore Brazil left
| Bremen for Rio Janiero on the 31st. The
party is composed of DR.. Carl Steinan,
| Wilhelm Steinan and Drs Ehrenrich, Of
| Berlin, and Vogel, of Munich.
| Jersey City, N j., returned to work on
| the 3lst, upon the firms terms, and the
strike is ended. The Lorillards have
all the hands that they will employ, and
| every department is in operation.
In the Hungarian Diet, on the 31st, Pre-
| mier Tisza, alluding to the general Euro
pean preparations for war, said so far
| as Austro-Hungary was concerned, purely
| precautionary measures had been under
| taken.
THE print mills of the Smith Carpet
| Works in Yonkers, N. Y, shut down on
| the 31st for lack of coal, throwing several
| hundred operatives out of work, and it is
| feared that all the carpet works there will
be forced to stop.
Mr.. HENRY NJ. STANLEY telegraphs from
Cairo, Egypt, as follows Nubar Pasha
desires me to contradict the reports that
the Egyptian Government is raising
| difficulties for the Emin Bey relief ex-
pedition The men and every thing have
asked for will be ready for departure on
Monday, the 7th.
THE naval su b-committee on construc-
ton has reached an agreement, which
will doubtless receive the approval OF the
full committee, looking to an appropria-
ticn for the construction Of two 4,O00-ton
cruisers Of the Newark type; five 1900
ton gunboats patterned after gunboat No.
/, and three seagoing torpedo boats.
THE Russian Government is inclined to
regard favorably the English proposal to
appoint a provisional regent of Bulgaria,
pending the election of a prince to the
vacant throne. The Cars nominee, the
Duke of Oldenburg, IS ready to act as re-
gent.
Hron 1ncnnh1 1c
order forbidding officers of the Aus stro-
Hungarian militia to belong to secret
societies, it is believed that Freemasons
will be eligible to commissions in the
landsturm in Hungary, but not in Austria,
where Freemasonry is regarded as
secret society and lodge meetings are
prohibited.
RAYMOND BELMONT, son of August Bel
mont, the well-known banker, shot him
self with a pistol, fatally, whether acci-
dentally or with suicidal intent is not
known, in the private shooting gallery at
his home on the morning of the 31st.
A BROCHURE entitled ''The Art of Com
batting the German Army" has been pub
lished in Paris. The author says that the
brochure was printed ten years ago, but
that it was withheld from circulation at
the earnest desire of the Duo Decazes,
who was then Foreign Minister.
IT was stated last week that Mrs. Cleve-
land would probably abandon her Tues
day and Thursday private receptions OF
personal friends. This prediction has
been swiftly realized, as the announce
ment was made on the 31st that she will
not hereafter be at home on these days.
AT fourteen minutes past eight o'clock
on the night of the 3lst the little town OF
Wellborn, Tex, was shaken twice by
slight earthquake shocks, causing win
dows to rattle and houses to tremble.
This is the first earthquake shock ever
felt in that section.
THE British ship Kapunda, which left
London December II for Fremantle, West
ern Australia, with emigrants, came into
collision near the coast of Brazil with an
unknown vessel, and was sunk. Three
hundred of those on board were drowned.
The remainder were saved and have ar
rived at Bahia
IT is estimated that the public debt will
show decrease Of about S9,000,oOo
since January l. The receipts DUR
ing January were S29,700,0o0, being about
et mn O00 mora than the receipts for the